Combined photon-echo, luminescence and Raman spectroscopies of layered ensembles of colloidal quantum dots

Abstract

Low-temperature dynamics in layered ensembles of core-double-shell colloidal CdSe/CdS/ZnS quantum dots is studied using different experimental techniques, including photoluminescence and absorption spectroscopy, luminescence microscopy, photon echo, transmission electronic microscopy and Raman scattering. A combination of different techniques clarify the nature and hierarchy of relaxation processes in the quantum dot (QD)-composite under study for a broad range of temperatures and timescales. The parameters of local phonons in QDs was found coincident by luminescence and Raman spectroscopies. Different contributions to optical spectra broadening has been recognized and attributed to certain properties of QDs: quantum size effect, electron-phonon coupling, spectral diffusion and natural excited state lifetime.